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Obscene exposure of drug users Brooklyn: We are saddened by the bulldozing of the Bronx homeless encampment known as The Hole following the Daily News series “Opioid Nation” (photo). This act disrupted the livelihoods of homeless individuals who injected drugs. Their displacement will force many into new encampments, expose them to conflict and violence in a city that failed to house them and push them into new networks of people who inject drugs, which may lead to the spread of disease. The publication of the location and naming and showing of people who lived there was irresponsible, as was the response it provoked. The Daily News should be held accountable for this contribution to the continued stigmatization and isolation of people who use drugs. To profile individuals without acknowledging the inequitable systems influencing them holds individuals accountable for issues that require community and systemic change to address. Our city’s system failures … [Read more...] about Readers sound off on opioid addiction, Donald Trump and free college

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's White House bid is leaving some people feeling queasy - but it's his opposition to common vaccinations that could make people sick. Trump has long trumpeted his false belief that the common vaccine to prevent measles, mumps and rubella has a direct link to rising rates of autism in the U.S. And while most experts predict his presidential campaign will eventually collapse, they worry his spreading of the conspiracy could convince more parents not to vaccinate their kids, and lead to outbreaks of measles and other dangerous diseases that vaccines had all but wiped out in the U.S. Donald Trump makes over-the-top entrance into Iowa State Fair "As a political scientist I think it's extremely unlikely he'll win the nomination, but his prominence does run the risk of bringing his views on vaccines back in the spotlight," said Dartmouth University Professor Brendan Nyhan, who has done research on why the anti-vaccine movement's conspiracy theories have … [Read more...] about Experts worry that Donald Trump’s opposition to common vaccinations might lead to outbreaks

Donald Trump loves to talk up his time at the prestigious Wharton School of Business — but he admits there was one deal even he couldn’t close: Scoring a date with homecoming queen Candice Bergen. "She was so beautiful," Trump reminisced of the “Murphy Brown” star in a Boston Globe interview published Friday. Bergen did notice Trump — she recalled in a 1992 speech that he was “hard to miss,” with the “two-piece burgundy suit with matching burgundy patent leather boots and [a] matching burgundy limousine.” Still, she managed to resist. "She was dating guys from Paris, France, who were 35 years old, the whole thing,” the GOP presidential frontrunner recalled to the Globe. “I did make the move. And I must say she had the good sense to say, 'Absolutely not.'" The real estate mogul was less kind in talking about primary rival Jeb Bush during a call-in to … [Read more...] about Donald Trump recalls how actress Candice Bergen turned him down for a date in college

EXETER, N.H. — Hillary Clinton thinks Donald Trump's sexist remarks are offensive — but no worse than what the rest of the GOP field thinks of women. Clinton told reporters that she was just as offended by Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-Fla.) remark during the debate that he opposed abortion even in cases of rape and incest, calling it "as offensive and troubling a comment" as anything Trump said. "While what Donald Trump said about Megyn Kelly is outrageous, what the rest of the Republicans are saying about all women is also outrageous," she said. "They brag about slashing women's health care funding. They say they would force women who've been raped to carry their rapist's child." Clinton said that Kelly is a "strong woman" and "more than capable of defending herself," and that she was more concerned about what Republicans' policies will do than "the showman on the stage." "I know it makes great TV. I think the guy went way overboard, … [Read more...] about Hillary Clinton: Other GOP candidates’ views on women are just as ‘outrageous’ as Donald Trump’s

Russell Simmons’ absurd attack Bayside: I woke up the other morning to the news that Russell Simmons, headlining an event by anti-carriage group NYCLASS, told the world that my husband and his co-workers, NYC carriage drivers and owners, are no different than Goebbels or Hitler, and no different than any American slave trader from the 18th or 19th century. That when they climb up on their carriages in the morning and head out to give folks rides through Central Park, their activity should conjure images of the Holocaust; that driving horses in an urban area should be compared to the killing of the Jewish people by the millions, and that the streets of NYC are counterparts to the ovens and gas chambers of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Simmons’ words imply that when my husband buys our family a new horse from an Amish farmer, he is walking in the footsteps of those who brought Africans to this country chained in ship galleys, to be sold for … [Read more...] about Readers sound off on Russell Simmons, Donald Trump and El Chapo

With President Trump’s 100th day in office coming at the end of April, the news media have already begun the timeless — and meaningless — process of dissecting how he is doing.One hundred is an arbitrary deadline, born of our society’s enduring fascination with round numbers. Nonetheless, we persist in asking presidential candidates what their first 100 days would be like and then judging the winner at the same mark.Our system of government gives the president enormous power to make things happen in his first 100 days (or in any 100-day period, for that matter). However, the chief executive’s ability to move swiftly runs smack into the big white glacier at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, where Congress is better judged in yearly increments.Signing bills into law requires two branches of government; it isn’t exactly fair to blame the Trump administration for a Republican-controlled Congress divided against itself. Though Trump lacks a … [Read more...] about Donald Trump has made the right enemies in 1st 100 days: Column

PRESCOTT VALLEY — Donald Trump charged up an already enthusiastic Arizona crowd Tuesday by ripping his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and vowing to get rid of the health-care law derisively dubbed "Obamacare."Speaking to a capacity crowd at the Prescott Valley Event Center, the Republican presidential nominee praised former President Bill Clinton, husband of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, for making critical comments — or telling the truth, according to Trump — about President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act."I bet he went through hell last night," Trump quipped during a hourlong appearance in which, in his signature style, he jumped from topic to topic and back again.Bill Clinton, while campaigning for his wife on Monday, called Obamacare "the craziest thing in the world," because "the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half."Bill … [Read more...] about What Donald Trump preached to the choir in Prescott Valley

Tamara Juarez and her mother became U.S. citizens recently, ending a process that took seven years and cost about $7,000. It has reached the point, she said, that it isn't a true option for many.At a time when the national debate is focused on illegal immigration, Juarez, 22, said her experience highlighted how legal migration is bogged down by paperwork, high costs and language barriers.“The path to citizenship is really the path for privileged immigrants,” said Juarez, who was born in El Salvador and became a U.S. citizen last summer. She is an Arizona State University senior majoring in journalism.The Arizona Dream Act Coalition hopes to make the process less onerous by offering legal services to immigrants like Juarez and her mother. The organization's mission is to increase the integration of immigrants, offer aid to those applying for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. And this year, ADAC began … [Read more...] about ‘People are not going to wait’: Why legal path to citizenship doesn’t work for many migrants

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised a capacity crowd at St. Norbert College that “we’re going to win so much we’re sick of it” during the first of his three appearances Wednesday in Northeastern Wisconsin.During his speech, Trump continued his attacks on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who on Tuesday backed Sen. Ted Cruz for the Republican primary election. Trump criticized Walker's job-creation record and his management of the state budget. Trump said Wisconsin has lost 15,000 jobs to Mexico and 70,000 jobs to China since the North American Free Trade Agreement was passed and that Walker and Republicans in control of the state legislature have left the state with a $2.2 billion budget deficit while dividing residents.“Everybody thought Scott Walker was tough and doing a good job when, you know, he was fighting people,” Trump said. “It’s better if you can do it without the fighting so much, you know. … How … [Read more...] about Trump: Going to ‘win so much we’re sick of it’

The Trump administration will begin "winding down" an Obama-era program that offers temporary deportation protection and work permits to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who made the announcement, said winding down the program will give Congress a chance "if it so chooses" to find a permanent solution for the nearly 800,000 "dreamers" currently covered under the program, including nearly 28,000 in Arizona.In directing the Department of Homeland Security to rescind the program, Sessions called the policy of granting deportation deferments and work permits to dreamers an unconstitutional circumvention of immigration law that would likely not survive a looming legal challenge. He also blamed the program for contributing to a recent surge in unaccompanied minors arriving at the southern border that "yielded terrible humanitarian consequences.""This policy was implemented unilaterally to great controversy and legal … [Read more...] about Trump administration to wind down DACA program for ‘dreamers’